The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-09-10
RESTFULNEsS OF FARM LIFE.

mo, said the pale young man sadly, II am
not working on farm for my health now
rs that SOP"
"Yes. have come away /; and the farm which
knew me would perhaps know me no more, but
if it could get sight of me, yet it can't
II went out you know, by the advice of ply
sician. Said he: "You need out door exercise,
and above all, sleep, such long, quite nights
sleep as you can only find in the country away
from the noise and heat of the city, with the
great open windows and the cool and velvety
breeze floating through your room all night
long, with perhaps an occasional night with the
pattering rain upon the roof to ull you to Sleep"
That's what the doctor said
$50 hired out to farmer to work all sum-
mer. He said l was so white and pale that he
couldn't give me anything but my board for my
services, but if l wanted to work for that might
climb in behind the seat and ride out.
$50 did. He had one mule and one horse,
and the mule baked every time he went Uphill
and the horse every time he went down hill, and
they both tried to run away on the level. He
drove them with trace chain tied on white
ash axe-helve.
but we got out there at last / don't want to
tell you anything about the work today
haven't time-but feel as if 1 must say some
thing about those long nights sleep.
"The first night we got home late, but still the
sun was only nicely down. The sun sets about
two hours later out there than anywhere else in
the known world.
AFTER supper the farmer spent one hour
and half telling me about the flax crop on the
back forty and then he reckoned we better milk.
There were twelve COWS and he said each would
take six. He gave me the kickers, and it took
me two hours, and it had been dark long time
when 1 finished. Then he had me pump up
water for the next day. And it took forty min
utes. Then 1 filled the wood-box and split the
knidling wood. And as it was a big box it took
crop, which took an hour. And when went to
bed it was glowing in the east.
1.-THE window in the room was pane of glass
nailed over an irregular hole in the boards and
could not be opened. I had just fallen asleep
and had begun to dream was lying along the
ridge pole of double-humped camel when the
farmer pounded on the stairs with an old broom
stick and said breakfast was ready. 1 couldn't
see as it was any lighter than when 1 went to
bed, though the sky in the east was a little
redder.
catf c,f rauner lne u,iy anu Cne last Gnu one
bayfield, sixteen hours.
"And that evening after supperhe said might
throw the dirt out of new cellar while I
rested.
"Then we milked, and he gave me eight COWS
instead of six-all kicl1ers. And one of them
a hooker, too, and slammed me through the corn
crib.
II got to bed an hour sooner than the night
I, fI,iv nTr1n M
getting up early the next morning.
"And that night it rained, and 1 heard the
pleasant patter of the rain on the roof that old
fraud Of doctor spoke about. But it didn't
lull me to sleep because it leaked on me and
got the bedclothes all wet and caught cold.
"And when the farmer pounded on the stairs
got up and looked at my watch, and had been
abed an hour and forty minutes. And my clothes
were wet and there was water in my shoes.
''But it was good day and we worked at the
hay again. We moved down what the farmer
called a "sather'' of it. And that night after
had rested awhile on the cellar and milked the
twelve cows-twelve kickers-and one OF them
thought 1 was trying to kidnap her calf and
chased me out of the yard-the farmer said 1t
looked like rain again, and he reckoned we'd
better go out and cock up that hay before bed
time.
'And before we got to the field 1 saw the
morning star, and when 1 had got up twelve
punches of hay and the old hypocrite of farm
er four, heard a lark. Then when had up
twenty-four punches and the farmer six it began
to grow quite light.
when the farmer saw it he laid down on the
hay and laughed for ten minutes. He said we
had worked right through the night without
knowing it.
But 1 had known more about it than he
thought had.
1--WE worked an hour longer and then we went
up to the house and MIXED. Breakfast WASH t
quite ready and threw couple of cubic yards
of sand out of the bottom of the cellar.
"And while we were eating the farmer told me
to hurry because he would like to get in one
full days work during haying. Isaid l would,
too, and that would stop and go out and har-
ness the horse. And he said that was business,
and went out and ran down the road and walk
ed into town.
"And now am looking for that old liar OF a
physician and surgeon who told me about the
long nights sleep would get on farm.